if Nazis were such a push over, and done with by the mighty allies, why are they still feared?

Question

well there is still so much anti nazi propaganda, and anti hitler stuff, and anti nazis. we are still persecuting old men, we are still telling the world how bad they "are" as well as were. why why why.
if they really were as bad as people have made out, then we would already know, the simple fact is, normal people dont give a damn, and actually most normal, law biding, hard working people, if they are honest, actually agree with their policies in general. oh and please dont beat the drum about the poor jews again, and bombard me with over inflated figures, thats not the question.

Answer 1

you have to take your hat of to them, they were to idealistic, but they were damn good, they created the best fighting force in the world, they were persecuted by the french which in turn created nazis. so we are right to fear them, one never knows

Answer 2

Nazis in the 30's and 40's were very clever at making war. They pretty much invented every modern weapon we use today, from the assault rifle, to the ballistic missile.
They were no pushover, but the armed forces were led by a Corporal (hitler retired as a corporal). He had very little tactical knowledge and his mood swings meant the D-day landings were a success.
It was a close run thing really, and thats why Nazis are feared.
Hitler made Germany great again, but he was also physchotic.

Answer 3

Lets place things in the proper context.
- No one has ever said that the Nazis were pushovers. The amount of losses of those fighting them attest to the hardness of the struggle.
- No one fears the Nazis of old, the persons, nowadays because they are so old as to be practically harmless.
- Any reasoning people would fear the repetition of the Nazi phenomenon under that name or any other for the reason others have already stated in previous answers. Because if Nazism took root in a highly educated country such as Germany, it or a similar doctrine can grow elsewhere. See what is going on in Venezuela. Mexico barely escaped recently from being hostage to a similar redentorist movement. See the fanaticism of Saddam's followers in Iraq (they resent their death, not only the occupation of their country), Le Pen has a following not to be discounted easily in France. Even Russia has ultra-nationalistic movements that have nazi-fascism characteristics.

THAT IS THE FEAR.

Answer 4

Actually, genius, many people in all genertions in Europe are do give a damn and are well aware of how bad they were. Just about every part of europe still has destroyed buildings or council type houses where neighborhoods or cities were before being destroyed by Nazi bombs. I don' know how many of those people would tell you they agree with their policies. The suggestion that most normal, hard working, honest law abiding people would agree with Nazi policies is simply ridiculous. Leaving the slaughter of the Slavs, Poles, Gypsey' and Jews (to name a few) aside for the moment, do you actually know what the Nazi "policies" were? Are you really saying you support the taxation, labor, genetic and cultural policies of the 3rd Reich? If you can say yes to that, you either do not know what those policies were or you have absolutely no desire to posess any degree of freedom.

Answer 5

Who said the Nazis were a 'push over', just log into some of the military graveyards and see the graves. You must be very young so I am going to try and remember that in my response because it occurs to me that you may really be trying to understand.
Your question has actually made me feel sick to my stomach. The war ended in 1945, it is still 'living memory' for people and yet, you ask as though you don't believe any of it.
As a child growing up in the 60s I played in houses in Liverpool, England that had been bombed, the beach still had shelters where soldiers had stood to guard the coastline, the sand was still covered with barbed wire in case an enemy ship made it to our shores.
I had Uncles I never knew because they were killed, I had Aunts that remained spinsters because their boyfriend never came home Etc Etc I am not yet 50 years old and yet people have forgotten the sacrifices of so many.
The 'old men' you mention are not persecuted, they are 'hunted' and they are 'hunted' for their participation in the horrifc crimes against humanity, yes humanity not a particular people. They are lucky to have lived to be old because the millions and millions of people they butchered never got the chance. They were not always old as young men they were part of a regime that exterminated their fellow man, peeled their skin from their bones and made lamp shades from it. There are so many attrocities, check it out for yourself or better still go and visit a Nazi camp, they do exist. You ask not to inflate numbers well, visit a former Nazi Concentration Camp, count the teeth of the dead that were pulled before they were exterminated. Weigh the hair that was shaved from their heads before they were gassed. Count the shoes of the babies who never got the chance to be old. You will not be able to count past 2 before you feel sick at the evidence. Watch the movie Schindlers List which is a true story and then come back and ask these questions.
You mention normal hardworking people don't give a damn, who do you think it was that served and died for our freedoms, yes, normal hardworking people. May I remind you that Hitlers overall objective was to populate the world with blond haired blue eyed people. He was going to exterminate every other race.
It is not the Nazis who are feared, it is their ideals and but for the bravery of the men and women who laid their lives down so that we may be free, they would have won.
Check out Winston Churchill and look up 'Lest We Forget'. Educate yourself and I promise you that if you are from the British Commonwealth then at the 11th hour, of the 11th day, of the 11th month, of every year, you shall wear a red poppy and 'we shall remember'.
May God bless all of the armed forces that stand between me and the terrorist.

Answer 6

Uh, what is the question here? The Nazis weren't pushovers. They were the big bad 900 pound gorilla. It took a concerted effort by the rest of the Western democracies to defeat them. Nazism is a very dangerous ideology that espouses the racial and ethnic superiority of a small, select group of caucasians (probably NOT you). This supposed superiority was used as justification for theft and murder on an unprecedented scale. It wasn't just the Jews. The Nazis wanted to exterminate the Slavs as well. Over 3 million Russian prisoners of war were executed in the concentration camps. What do you think they would have done with Southern Europeans, Arabs, Latins, Blacks? They ultimately wanted to exterminate every non-aryan population on the Earth. They had to be stopped then, and they have to be stopped today.

Answer 7

Push over? The Soviets lost 27 million men, with the other allied casualties equalling 14 million. While many cant forgive the Germans, it is sort of easy to see why.....Agree with which policies in particular? Most of the Nazi policies were for the economy, and german people only..

Answer 8

In the 1930's there was an idea that society would go one of two ways, facism or communism.

As a result, fascism and Nazism spread like wild fire around the world Italy, Germany, Spain, Bulgaria, Romania, Czechoslovakia, Japan, UK - Blackshirts, France, the US. It was a disease that got everywhere.

The brutal ideology of Nazism, I'm stronger than you, so I can tell you what to do, remains in many places today.

Hitler deliberatly tried to kill his own people, the Germans, at the end of the war because they had failed, and therefore didn't deserve to live.

WW2 cost the lives of 50 million people and is the starting point of many of the wars and conflicts we see today.

Nazism is irrational, hateful, and wrong, but worse than that, it can catch on fast with angry frightened people. So be careful of what you think most people believe.

It was the closest human beings have ever got to going out completely...

Answer 9

so many high-ranking nazis murdered a bunch of people. real sick ****. because they are old should we let them off the hook? nazis are still fucked up. they spew ignorance. you can be an educated racist, but the skin-heads in america are dumb as rocks. i shouldnt say anything about jews? but the question is why is the world still ant-nazi? lol if i cant talk about the jews that should make it harder for me to find a reason, right? i sense some other feelings in your wording...the political stance of the nazi party isn't bad, but only on paper. it was the quest for world domination, the way hitler called his race the "master race". thats fucked up.

i dono where you get the notion that nazis are still feared. they are not. they are allowed to gather in puclib, just like the people protesting them.

i don't remember anyone saying they were a pushover. it was a hard war. they were military masters. few simple mistakes from hitler ended it for them.

here is what i now know about you though: you are either a German who is not getting the facts from your state schools, or you are Edward Furlong.

Answer 10

OK very simple answer to your very simple question.
Nazis are not feared, they are hated.
I dont ever recall anyone anywhere saying they were a push over!
They were as bad as people make out and we do know that,
why why why do we keep on about it?
Another simple answer, to stop it happening again in the UK by the BNP? Not a member by any chance are you????
Wouldnt it be nice if we could agree with you and all say Nazis are just misunderstood!!!

Answer 11

If someone is a serial killer, and flees justice, should they be able to get away with their crimes just because they weren't caught quickly enough?

Most countries don't have a statute of limitations on murder or similar war crimes, because they believe such offenses are serious enough that the criminal should always be able to be punished and brought to justice.

As for "normal people agreeing with their policies", I don't know where you get your information, but most people don't condone torture, slavery or murder. Which are the crimes these individuals are charged with committing.

People cannot be prosecuted just for being part of the Nazi party, as a political entity. Nor are they. Individuals are prosecuted for the crimes they allegedly committed, which happened to be while the Nazi regime was in power.